In February 2020, a widely publicised event, “Namaste Trump,” welcomed the US President Donald Trump on his inaugural visit to India. Before the event, Indian authorities launched a frenzied beautification drive at the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad. They hastily erected a half-kilometre brick wall enroute to the stadium, which Trump’s motorcade was to take.
Behind the two-meter-high wall — painted green, daubed with bright golden letters—lay a world of grey and despair, the Sarania Vass slum that housed more than 800 families. The wall stands as an emblem of a new India under Narendra Modi, one that conceals the real India, teeming with millions of poor and neglected people.
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